4-15 August 2008
Hamburg, Germany
ESSLLI 2008
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany
4 - 15 August 2008
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/
The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is
organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and
Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe.
The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic
and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced
courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within
its areas of interest. If you wish to stay updated about ESSLLI 2008,
please subscribe to the ESSLLI 2008 Newsletter via
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/Newsletter/
You can find a list of courses, workshops and lecturers below. For more
information, please consult our webpage.
COURSES.
Foundational Courses:
Approaches to Dialogue Systems and Dialogue Management (Traum)
Bidirectional OT in Natural Language (de Swart & de Hoop)
Introduction to Computational Social Choice (Endriss)
Introduction to the Logic of Conditional (Egre & Cozic)
Logics for Computation (Areces & Blackburn)
Introductory Courses:
Alternative Logical Semantics (Groenendijk)
Bioinformatic Methods in Calculating Language Relationships (Ldeling
& Leser)
Degrees in Semantics (Pinon)
Deontic Logic in Computer Science (van der Torre & Hansen)
Dynamic Epistemic Logic (van Ditmarsch & van Eijck)
Experimental Investigations of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (Breheny
& Katsos)
Grammar Induction and Language Evolution (Zuidema & Bod)
Integrating Logic Programs and Connectionist Systems (Bader, Hlldobler
& Hitzler)
Interval Temporal Logics (Goranko & Montanari)
Lattices and Topologies (Bezhanishvili & Jibladze)
Modularity in Logical Theories and Ontologies (Lutz & Wolter)
Natural Language Generation for Embodies Conversational Agents
(Striegnitz)
Negative Polarity Items (Richter, Rado & Sailer)
Optimizing the Future (Schwager)
Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks (Romeijn & Williamson)
Randomness in Logic (Reimann)
Reasoning, Games, Action and Rationality (Pacuit & Roy)
Rhetorical Relations (Jasinskaja & Zeevat)
Statistical Language Modeling for Information Access (de Rijke)
Statistical Machine Translation (Koehn & Callison-Burch)
The Syntax-Semantics Interface (Egg & Kordoni)
Unification Grammars (Wintner)
Advanced Courses:
Composing Meaning as Programs (Shan)
Computational Dialogue Modelling (Ginzburg & Fernandez)
Convergent Grammar (Pollard)
Dependence Logic (Vnnen)
Games, Monadic Logics and Synthesis (Rabinovich)
Logic, Cognition and the Brain (van Lambalgen)
Modal Logics for Games and Multi-Agent Systems (gotnes & Jamroga)
Modelling Dialogue and Language Change (Kempson & Cann)
Model Theory for Extensions of Modal Logic (ten Cate & Gabelaia)
Nonmonotonic Logics (Truszczynski)
Parsing Beyond Context-Free Grammars (Kallmeyer & Maier)
Perspective and Perspective Shift (Sauerland & Katz)
Semantic Relation Extraction and its Applications (Girju)
Workshops.
Dynamics in Logic (van Ditmarsch & Meyer)
5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing
(CSLP2008; Villadsen & Christiansen)
Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal
adverbs (Schmitz & Zeevat)
Free choiceness: facts, models and problems (Jayez & Tovena)
Lexical semantics: Bridging the gap between semantic theory and
computational simulations (Baroni, Bosch, Evert & Lenzi)
Logic and Intelligent Interaction (van Benthem & Pacuit)
Logics for Agents and Mobility (Farwer & Khler)
Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation (Lecomte &
Quatrini)
The Semantics of Clause Combining (Sauerland)
What Syntax Feeds Semantics? (Romero; TENTATIVE)
TEACHERS OF COURSES & ORGANIZERS OF WORKSHOPS:
Thomas gotnes (Bergen) Carlos Areces (Nancy)
Sebastian Bader (Dresden) Marco Baroni (Trento)
Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) Guram Bezhanishvili (Las Cruces NM)
Patrick Blackburn (Nancy) Rens Bod (Amsterdam)
Peter Bosch (Osnabrueck) Richard Breheny (London)
Chris Callison-Burch (Baltimore MD) Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh)
Balder ten Cate (Amsterdam) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde)
Mikal Cozic (Paris) Hans van Ditmarsch (Otago)
Markus Egg (Groningen) Paul Egr (Paris)
Jan van Eijck (Amsterdam) Ulle Endriss (Amsterdam)
Stefan Evert (Osnabrueck) Berndt Farwer (Durham)
Raquel Fernndez (Stanford CA) David Gabelaia (Tbilisi)
Jonathan Ginzburg (London) Roxana Girju (Urbana IL)
Valentin Goranko (Johannesburg) Jeroen Groenendijk (Amsterdam)
Jrg Hansen (Leipzig) Pascal Hitzler (Karlsruhe)
Steffen Hlldobler (Dresden) Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen)
Wojtek Jamroga (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) Katja Jasinskaja (Stuttgart)
Jacques Jayez (Lyon) Mamuka Jibladze (Tbilisi)
Laura Kallmeyer (Tuebingen) Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge)
Graham Katz (Osnabrueck) Ruth Kempson (London)
Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh) Michael Khler (Hamburg)
Valia Kordoni (Saarbruecken) Michiel van Lambalgen (Amsterdam)
Alain Lecomte (Grenoble) Alessandro Lenci (Pisa)
Ulf Leser (Berlin) Anke Ldeling (Berlin)
Carsten Lutz (Dresden) Wolfgang Maier (Tuebingen)
Thomas Meyer (Sydney) Angelo Montanari (Udine)
Eric Pacuit (Stanford CA) Christopher Pin (Budapest)
Carl Pollard (Columbus OH) Myriam Quatrini (Marseille)
Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv) Janina Rado (Tuebingen)
Jan Reimann (Heidelberg) Frank Richter (Tuebingen)
Maarten de Rijke (Amsterdam) Jan-Willem Romeijn (Groningen)
Maribel Romero (Philadelphia PA) Olivier Roy (Amsterdam)
Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen) Uli Sauerland (Berlin)
Hans-Christian Schmitz (Frankfurt) Magdalena Schwager (Frankfurt)
Ken Shan (Piscataway NJ) Kristina Striegnitz (Chicago IL)
Henriette de Swart (Utrecht) Leon van der Torre (Luxembourg)
Lucia Tovena (Paris) David Traum (Los Angeles CA)
Mirek Truszczynski (Lexington KY) Jouko Vnnen (Amsterdam)
Jrgen Villadsen (Kongens Lyngby) Jon Williamson (Canterbury)
Shuly Wintner (Haifa) Frank Wolter (Liverpool)
Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) Jelle Zuidema (Amsterdam)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE.
Enrico Franconi, Petra Hendriks, Michael Kaminski, Benedikt Lwe
(co-chair), Massimo Poesio, Philippe Schlenker, Khalil Sima'an, Rineke
Verbrugge (chair)
ORGANIZERS.
Walther van Hahn, Cristina Vertan.
COORDINATING E-MAIL ADDRESS.
esslli2008@science.uva.nl